Developing a Vocabulary of the Senses.

Abstract

times deliberately planned experiences have been added to the curriculum to sensitize children to differences in texture, color and shape, volume and pitch, odor, and taste. Such multi-sensory enrichment has usually been seen as compensating for environmental deficits. The belief has been that by multiplying the objects, occasions, or events from which valued kinds of learning can be derived, children from poor backgrounds will be helped to catch up with other children. Thus the added experiences have often been considered to be in themselves